"Sailing - the races of legend" is the book that brings together the great ocean races that have one or more oceans as their playground. From the most popular such as the Mini Transat, the Vendée Globe, the Route du Rhum to others less well known to the general public such as the Quebec Saint-Malo, the BOC Challenge or the Clipper Round the World Race, the book focuses on 15 legendary races.
It's a beautiful book that you want to showcase in your library and you can tell from the cover that the sea is not so easy to tame and that the skippers will have many adventures to tell us about.
There's no technical talk in this book. It focuses on the stories of men and women who are passionate about the sea, heroes who find themselves facing the elements and who have each participated, in their own way, in the history of ocean racing. If you like seafaring stories, this book will please you!
Every race is a story
The book explains how and why each race was born. We also find the history of the winners and the galleys encountered during the different editions. Anecdotes and adventures that the skippers had to face and which marked these offshore races.
Exclusive interviews
For each of them, there are also one or two testimonies of winning navigators. In the form of an interview, they share with us what motivated them to take part in this race and how they felt about it. In this way we discover the confidences of 19 sailors such as Jérémie Beyou, Karine Fauconnier, Jim Cooney...
For most of them (with the exception of 3), we find "The words of the organizer". Race directors give their point of view on the management and success of these races, how they became legendary races.
A classic to have in your library
"Sailing - the races of legend" is therefore a classic for sailing lovers or those who wish to take an interest in sailing. It is a compendium of information on 15 legendary races. It synthesizes more than 60 years of ocean racing history by highlighting the anecdotes that have marked each of them. It is easy to read, each race is detailed and illustrated in around ten pages. When reading this book, one plunges into a fascinating universe, that of sailing races, that of challenges linking a man, a boat and the sea. Stories of extraordinary men and women who are looking for escape and self-surpassing... A book that we will be pleased to reopen in future editions to remember what makes these races legendary today.
Sailing - The Legendary Races
- Editions Amphora - October 2020
- 30 x 25 cm
- 235 pages
- 34.95 euros
